German Suarez Alonso

DevEx and Platform Engineer at Telefónica (Remote)

Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

About

DevOps and Release Manager Engineer with over 15 years of experience, focusing on Agile/DevOps practices and wide technical background, CI/CD in different environments, testing, automation, customer releases and training. Technical leader and responsible for every release quality. Accustomed to working in a multinational and multicultural environment.

Experience

  • Telefónica Innovación Digital (7 yrs 6 mos)
    • DevEx and Platform Engineer (Remote)
      Dec 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 7 mos

    • Release Manager
      Jan 2019 - Nov 2023 · 4 yrs 11 mos

      • Responsible for implementing and managing release processes (front and backend) as a member of our DevOps lifecycle team. • Works with all organization stakeholders to improve the software engineering processes and practices associated with continuously building, deploying, and updating software and environments.

  • Release Manager at Tuenti
    Jan 2019 - Sep 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • DevOps Engineer - CI/CD at ING
    May 2018 - Dec 2018 · 8 mos

    • Working in a continuous delivery team as a service. • Create, build, design and maintain a continuous delivery pipeline which do builds, automated tests, versioning, releases and deploy with different types of applications (Frontend/Backend). • Multi-Team support within the project from development teams to environments team.

  • Ericsson (5 yrs 4 mos)
    • Release Lead
      Mar 2017 - Apr 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos

      • Responsible for final Ericsson product quality (virtual SAPC , the PCRF node according to the 3GPP) in every release. • Responsible for continuous release process achieving several important benefits such as faster time to market, higher quality and lower costs. • Multi-Team testing coordination over 15 teams within the project. • Leading a wide release team (10 people) as Product Owner. • Working closely with key stakeholders throughout the organization. SkillSet: • Test strategies, plans, estimations and scope through user stories. • Release Product Owner using different agile methodologies (Kanban and Scrum) via JIRA Dashboards. • Monitoring, control and reporting of the testing activities and tasks to ensure business scenario.

    • Continuous Integration Engineer
      Mar 2015 - Mar 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      • Working in a continuous integration team in a DevOps culture integrating daily 20 teams located in Spain and China. • Building and maintaining continuous integration and continuous deployment strategies in different environments. • Implementing automation solutions to speed up software deliveries. • Tools for building, deploying, configuring and operating the platform. SkillSet: • Linux SysAdmin: Red Hat and Suse . • Continuous integration and deployment: Jenkins,pipelines, artifactory (ARM). • Scripting: Bash and Python. • Virtualization and cloud: OpenStack and VMware. • Version control: Git. • REST APIs. • Network protocol analyzer: Wireshark , Tshark. • Trobleshooting hardware and software. • Support CI/CD processes of the Ercisson SAPC product (PCRF node). • Automation System tests into integration process: Stabilities, high load and stress, backup and restore, perfomance. • Agile metodology environment: Kanban, Scrum. JIRA dashboards.

    • Senior Verification Engineer
      Jan 2013 - Feb 2015 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      • Guarantee quality of the Ericsson virtual SAPC (PCRF) in mobile, fixed and convergent scenarios, ensuring the product meets established quality requirements. • Design System test specifications such as stability, robustness, characteristics in terms of performance, accuracy (counters, alarms and notifications), maintainability and vulnerability. • Technical product documentation and validation: installation, deployment and upgrade. • Implementing and executing manual and automatic test cases. SkillSet: • Linux SysAdmin: Red Hat and SLES 12. • Virtualization : KVM, Open vSwitch, Openstack • Scrum Agile methodology. • DataBase: MySQL. • Test Framework: TTCN , Jenkins and Bash. • Network protocol analyzer: Wireshark , Tshark. • Scripting: Shell and Perl. • Version Control: ClearCase and Git. • 4G. • 3GPP standards: Gx, Sy, Sd, Rx. • Protocols: Radius, Diameter, OSPF, Netconf, TCP/UDP and common TCP/IP protocols. • Trobleshooting hardware and software.

  • Systems Integration Engineer at AerVox
    Jun 2011 - Dec 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos

    • Responsible for making sure the installation, configuration, integration in the end-to-end operator network works according customer needs. • Defining and performing acceptance tests scope. • Involved in several projects around the world (Brazil, Switzerland) • Gathering business intelligence on the customer by matching specific requirements with effective technical solutions. SkillSet: • Unix SysAdmin: Solaris 10 • Clustering, HA, storage virtualization (RAID). • Roaming scenarios: GSM, GPRS. • Protocols: ISUP, GTP, MAP, SIGTRAN, SS7 • Network protocol analyzer: Wireshark. • DataBase SysAdmin: MySQL • Provisioning: Bash and SQL.